Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

Just arrived from Twitter and playing with my new Mastodon account. So far so good!

I little bit prouder today of my institution. MIT is hosting its own #mastodon server

mastodon.mit.edu

See you there soon

Very delicate and cautious and humble and melancholic text on what it means that thousands (millions?) of latecomers like me enter the #mastodon party now.
https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

Is there a Patreon for my instance, Fediscience.org?

would like to support.

TIP OF THE DAY

If your instance server is having a hard time right now, don't freak out.

You do not need to change servers. Mastodon is getting a huge influx of new users and they are all working tirelessly to add capacity. If you are otherwise happy with your instance, trust that they will get things working smoothly. Give them some time to sort things out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration

A pedestrian walks past “Breathe:2022”, an artwork by Dryden Goodwin displayed across different sites in Lewisham and Catford as a comment on air pollution in the area. Picture taken from the bus and crossposted from Instagram. #streetart #publicart #sciart #london #photography #photos

During COP27, we urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those held simply for peacefully exercising their human rights, implementing criteria set by local NGOs for these releases: fairness, transparency, inclusiveness and urgency. One of these prisoners is Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is now on a water strike since the beginning of COP27. (thread)

Awesome thing about working in #London : looking up! London is a city of trees and fascinating architecture. Lunchtime meetings in Westminster = an excuse to be a tourist in your home city. 🫶

Here are my first Autism Infocards, Use them as you like within the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
I'll make more cards soon, hope they are helpful 😊. There will be a download-link later on my website, when the set is complete!
(Reupload because of typo and wrong order of the captions).

#Autism #MastoArt #FuchskindArt #DanielaSchreiterArt #Illustration #Comic

So I guess I should do an #introductionpost. I am a former researcher/lab rat in immunology with experience at NIH on malaria vaccines, lab animal health testing at a former Invitrogen bought CRO, that worked with Fort Detrick on Ebola and Hantaa. Also worked on clinical trials at MedImmune/AZ on monoclonals. Retired due to disability caused by chemo brain from bone marrow disease treatment. Love Cats, baseball, all things biotech./biology. Always willing to share my experiences/answer q’s.

It's that time of year again! #WrapUpLondon is back! Do you have a winter coat that you don't want or use, and would like to donate it to those in need?

WrapUp London are collecting coats at #London Bridge, #Waterloo, #Moorgate, #Liverpoolstreet & #kingscross stations today and tomorrow - 7am to 11am 🧥😊🧥

There are also local collection points if you can't make it to the stations. Find out where, here: https://www.handsonlondon.org.uk/wrap-uplondon

Today I’m going to take the #ElizabethLine all the way to Reading … so exciting! #trains #London

Great way to fight jet lag: go for a grand #concert that will keep you awake and buzzing with excitement until your head hits the pillow and pass out. #Percussion goals: play the bass drum in #Verdi's #Requiem!

#choir #orchestra #highlanderconcertseries #dallas #meyersonsymphonycenter

Time for an #introduction.

I'm a developer at https://stacklet.io working with python in a serverless AWS environment. Working remotely from New Zealand.

When not working I love eating the amazing food my wife cooks, good #wine, good #gin. I tolerate #gardening just to have fresh vegetables. Enjoy walking our standard poodle through the native bush. Enjoy #singing, in a #barbershop #choir.

Feed wild #birds daily just to see them gather.

I also play commander #MtG on #SpellTable.

Moving this account to take off some of the load of my previous home instance (that I still like and support).
So, not quite new, but to help others find me, here are a few of my favourite hashtags: #organ #organmusic #WomenComposers #knitting #singing #choir

I speak English, German, French and basic Icelandic. I understand Dutch and Swedish. And various dialects 😄

Check out this event at the #Nottingham Albert Hall by my choir on 18//12 .Who doesn't love a good singalong at Christmas? The programme is a good mixture of traditional and contemporary and I promise you that we're really good. Besides, if I have to earworm A Spaceman Came Travelling for months at a time you can at least listen to me singing it once!

#events #choir #carols #needalittlechristmas

https://www.bevox.co.uk/events/we-need-a-little-christmas

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

#introduction I am an associate professor at the Gatsby Computation Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL and visiting scientist at #MetaAI.

I think we're pretty amazing learners and my goal is to unravel the computational principles governing learning in artificial and biological systems. I'm broadly interested in the theory of deep learning and applications to neuroscience and psychology.

#machinelearning #ai #neuroscience #psychology #deeplearning #ucl #cifar

#Introduction I am a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford supervised by Armin Lak and Chris Summerfield.

I work on the most exciting question in neuroscience: How do brains learn? I use a blend of experimental and theoretical methods to get at answers to this question. And when I can, I build useful tools for making sense of data.

I also help run the Cortex Club. We're always looking for speakers. Check out https://cortexclub.com if you would like to say hello.

#neuroscience #machinelearning #psychology #ai

This is interesting https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/
#twittermigration